Caribbean Spaces : Escapes from Twilight Zone /

"Both a memoir and a scholarly study, this project explores the multivalent meanings of Caribbean space and community in a cross-cultural and transdisciplinary perspective. Drawing on experiential knowledge and theory, Boyce Davies has crafted this set of reflective essays to illuminate the dyn...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Boyce Davies, Carole (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2013]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Human geography
Black people > Ethnic identity.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Black Studies (Global)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
HISTORY > Caribbean & West Indies > General.
Human geography > Caribbean Area.
Black people > Caribbean Area > Ethnic identity.
Black people > Caribbean Area > Migrations.
Caribbean Area
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction. Caribbean Spaces: Reflective Essays/Creative-Theoretical Circulations
  • 1. Between the Twilight Zone and the Underground Railroad: Owega
  • 2. Reimagining the Caribbean: Seeing, Reading, Thinking
  • 3. Caribbean/American: The Portable Black Self in Community
  • 4. Spirit Scapes: From Brazil to the Caribbean
  • 5. Middle Passages: Movable Borders and Ocean-Air Space Mobility
  • 6. Women, Labor, and the Transnational: From Work to Work
  • 7. Connecting Stories: My Grandmother's Violin
  • 8. Changing Locations: Literary Pathways of Caribbean Migration9. Haiti, I Can See Your Halo!: Living on Fault Lines
  • 10. Caribbean GPS: Compasses of Racialization
  • 11. Circulations: Caribbean Political Activism
  • 12. My Father Died a Second Time
  • 13. Postscript: Escape Routes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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